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1. : a long slender column usually of timber, steel, or reinforced concrete driven into the ground to carry a vertical load. … thus Ellet reported that the riverbed was … firm enough to drive piles into for the foundations of piers. Henry Petroski. 2. : a wedge-shaped heraldic charge usually placed vertically with the broad end up. 3. a.
PILE definition: 1. objects positioned one on top of another: 2. a mass of something that has been placed…. Learn more.
noun. an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks. Synonyms: batch, mound, stack, accumulation, heap, collection, mass. Informal. a large number, quantity, or amount of anything: a pile of work. a heap of wood on which a dead body, a living person, or a sacrifice is burned; pyre.
Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood.
A pile is a heap of stuff that keeps accumulating, like the dirty laundry in the back of your closet, or Uncle Scrooge’s money. Pile can be used as a noun or a verb. If you pile rocks on top of each other, you will eventually have a...pile of rocks.
n. 1. A quantity of objects stacked or thrown together in a heap. See Synonyms at heap. 2. Informal. a. A large accumulation or quantity: a pile of work to do. b. A large amount of money: made a pile in the real estate boom. 3. A nuclear reactor. 4. A voltaic pile. 5. A very large building or complex of buildings. 6. A funeral pyre.
pile. noun. /paɪl/. /paɪl/. see also piles Idioms. [countable] a number of things that have been placed on top of each other. pile of something a pile of clothes/paper. I found it in a pile of documents on his desk. in/into a pile The hats were stacked in neat piles.
an amount of a substance in the shape of a small hill or a number of objects on top of each other: a pile of books / bricks. a pile of sand / rubbish. The clothes were arranged in piles on the floor. Fewer examples. He left his clothes in a muddled pile in the corner. He hid the letter beneath a pile of papers.
pile. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Material & textiles, Civil pile1 /paɪl/ S2 noun 1 arrangement of things [ countable] a group of several things of the same type that are put on top of each other SYN stack pile of His mother came in carrying a pile of ironing in her arms.
Definition of pile noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
